The year is 1964. The place is Brighton. A once quiet seaside town is suddenly overrun by gangs of sharp suited Mods and greasy Rockers looking for a riot.

Amongst the chaos lurks top Mod and gangster Pinkie Brown. Ruthless, ambitious and horrifically violent, Pinkie will stop at nothing in his brutal quest to make a name for himself within the criminal underworld.

But when a cold bloodied killing links him to a waitress named Rose, he uses seduction to secure her silence.

Can Rose be saved in time from Pinkie, or will he drag her further into a world of death and damnation?

It was always going to be a brave move to bring another version of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock to the big screen,yet there’s enough of an identity within director Rowan Joffe’s take on the materialto give the film a distinction of its own.